LAUNCH TECHNOLOGY STUDIES.

SEC. 214. LAUNCH TECHNOLOGY STUDIES. (a) Report on Single Stage Rocket Technology Fight Test Program.— Not later than 45 days following completion of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization’s Single Stage Rocket Technology flight test program, the Administrator shall submit a report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives providing an independent analysis of the program and the potential application of this launch technology to the civil space program. (b) National Aerospace Transportation Technology Plan.— Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the National Space Council, in consultation with the Administrator, shall submit to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology of the House of Representatives a national aerospace transportation technology plan. The plan shall consider— (1) the needs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and other agencies for a hypersonic research flight vehicle, including the National Aerospace Plan; and (2) the relationship between the National Aerospace Plane and the supersonic High Speed Civil Transport, the Single Stage Rocket Technology Program, nuclear propulsion concepts, and other proposed aeronautical and space transportation technology concepts.